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Australia's best road segments
Contour scored 1.41 million road segments. Every 300-500m stretch is ranked across 40+ intelligence signals. These are the ones the algorithm keeps finding.
Queensland has the largest offroad track network in Australia - 116,000 tracks.
Each card is a single 300-500 metre stretch of road, scored 0-10 across 40+ signals. Not a route or a journey - one segment of tarmac. These are the highest-scoring out of 1.41 million.
3 roads
Bellthorpe Range Road
Queensland
Steepest in QLD
The steepest sealed road in Queensland's top-scoring pool at 248m per kilometre. Curviness 669, sealed tertiary in the Sunshine Coast hinterland north of Maleny. Sharp and sustained - the gradient does not relent.
Mossman Daintree Road
Queensland
Sealed tertiary between Wet Tropics rainforest and the coast north of Mossman in Far North Queensland. Curviness 300, elevation 217m per kilometre. High score concentrated in a short, sharp stretch - run it May to October.
Cooloolabin Road
Queensland
Sealed tertiary through the Mary Valley range behind the Sunshine Coast. Curviness 492, 116m elevation per kilometre, score 9.84. Tight bends, almost no traffic, nothing at either end - just the road through the range.
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33,000 km of exceptional roads found
The top 3% of Australian roads, filtered by state and vehicle type.